Kidman is madam's pick

Nicole Kidman has been tipped to play Heidi
Fleiss in a movie of†the Hollywood madam's†life story.

†Notorious Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss has sealed a deal to turn her
life story into a movie in which film star Nicole Kidman could play the lead
role, the industry press said today.

Fleiss, whose now infamous "black
book" of clients of her high-class call girls contained the phone numbers of a
quiver of stars, sold the rights of her story to Paramount Pictures which will
produce the film - Pay the Girl.

"This should be like
Pretty Woman, but with the visual energy and excess of
Scarface," Fleiss told the entertainment industry bible Daily
Variety.

All of the madam movies have been like B-level porn or
they've been boring," she said.

"The world I was living in was not
boring."†The prospect of 35-year-old Australian beauty Kidman
playing Fleiss in the movie was "a major enticement" to selling the rights to
her fascinating story, Fleiss said.

Fleiss' dramatic arrest in 1995 sent
major shockwaves through Hollywood as top entertainment industry figures
reportedly braced for potentially humiliating revelations as light was thrown on
the madam's client list.

While the identities of the men on her
star-studded client list became a hotly-debated topic in Tinseltown, only that
of movie actor Charlie Sheen emerged as Fleiss has remained silent on the
subject.

Fleiss, who was convicted on charges of attempted pandering,
money laundering and tax evasion, served 20 months of a 37 month sentence and
was released in 1998.

The daughter of a respected paediatrician, Fleiss
took over the turf of an older madam and "cornered the market and stayed on top
for two and a half years," she told Variety.

"I ran my
business dealing with the top one per cent of the richest people in the entire
world, people who run countries and whose actions change economies.

"It
was very intoxicating and the money was huge."†But her career as
the leading source of beautiful hookers in Hollywood came to an abrupt end when
she got caught in a major police sting operation.